MacLispix Help

General on line help

The help facility uses your web browser, which runs concurrently
with MacLispix. The help documents can be browsed separately,
of course. Set the default browser with the MLx...Help...Set
Browser menu to either Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer
.

Read the help files in the normal way by navigating from
the MacLispix home page.

Go to help pages on specific functions by using the option-key-help
explained below.

Download updates to the software by navigating to the Downloads
page.

Invoke the MLx...Help...Local menu to use the help
files on your Mac.

Invoke the MLx...Help...Server menu to use the help
files on the server at NIST.

Option-key-help

For help on any MLx menu or button hold down the option
key while selecting the menu or clicking on the button. This
will show a brief description of the command in a dialog. For
instance, pressing the Info...Help button in the Image
Buttons window, brings up this brief description of the Image
arrays:

which is similar to the dialogs which are shown on selecting
menus or buttons while holding down the option key. As this particular
button does nothing other than show this dialog, the OK
button does nothing. For most help windows however, the OK button
would go ahead and do whatever the button or menu was supposed
to do.

Help Will show the appropriate help in the HTML browser.

Cancel Will do nothing but close the help dialog.

OK Will go ahead with command - as if the button were
pressed without the option key being held down.